The Diversions of PurleyW. Tegg & Company, 1860 - 739 pages |
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abbreviation Adjective adverb Aleran Anglo-Saxon verb antient authority boke booke called cant Cause Chaucer Comm common Conjunctions corruption derivation Diues and Pauper doth Douglas Dutch edition employed English enim etiam etymologists etymology euery explained Faerie Queene formerly written French give Gothic Gower Grammarians Greek grete Harris hath haue Ibid imperative instances Italian Johnson Junius knight kynge language Latin Lord Lord Monboddo loue manner meaning Menage merely Minshew modern neuer Noun old English origin past participle past tense Perizonius philosophers Ploughman Poly-olbion preposition present participle Prol pronounced qu'il quæ quam quia quod reason Scaliger sentence Shakespeare shal signification Skinner says song speech substantive sunt suppose Tale tense and past thare thing thou thyng tion translation Troylus truth tyme unto Vossius whan wolde word write
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Page liv - For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.
Page 455 - And his fame went throughout all Syria; and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
Page 657 - Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
Page 404 - And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them: "Verily I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: for all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her...
Page 356 - And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire : and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.
Page 432 - His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Page 16 - ... although we think we govern our words, and prescribe it well loquendum ut vulgus sentiendum ut sapientes; yet certain it is that words, as a Tartar's bow, do shoot back upon the understanding of the wisest, and mightily entangle and pervert the judgement.
Page 98 - The Moor — howbeit that I endure him not, — Is of a constant, loving, noble nature ; And, I dare think, he'll prove to Desdemona A most dear husband.
Page 19 - The consideration then of ideas and words, as the great instruments of knowledge, makes no despicable part of their contemplation, who would take a view of human knowledge in the whole extent of it. And, perhaps, if they were distinctly weighed, and duly considered, they would afford us another sort of logic and critic, than what we have been hitherto acquainted with.
Page 565 - And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.